StarTech.com 6 ft / 2m USB to DB25 Parallel Printer Adapter Cable - 2 Meter USB to IEEE-1284 Printer Cable - USB A to DB25 M/F (ICUSB1284D25)

I'm convinced the cable is a solid product. (No comment on included driver disk... not required for Windows 7, and other recent operating systems) Wondering if this cable will work for you? I recommend following the first 8 steps below. If your printer driver is listed in step 8, I suspect your chances of this cable working for you is near 100% I struggled for a week to get this working. Here's the rub I encountered: I'm using a very old printer (HP Laserjet iip). When I tried to "add a printer" via the "Devices & Printer" dialog, the HP laserjet iip driver was not listed. I tried using the "Windows Update" option referred to on reviews here, and on countless other forums to no avail, because they fail to mention a key point. Here's the "key point": In order to update the list of printer drivers via "windows update", you must have selected the LPT1 printer port.... EVEN IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE A PARALLEL LPT1 PRINTER PORT. So here's my attempt to explain the steps necessary to get this cable to work on Windows 7 64bit OS, using an old printer not natively listed in Win7 printer driver list: First, update printer driver list & install your printer driver: 1- Select "Start" 2- Select "Devices & Printers" 3- Select "Add a printer" (near top of dialog) 4- Select "Add a local Printer" 5- Select "Use an existing port: LPT1 (Printer Port) - EVEN OF YOU DON'T HAVE THIS PORT 6- Select "Next" 7- Select "Windows Update" (may take a while... but will update driver list) 8- Select the manufacturer and printer from the scrollable list 9- Select "Next" 10- Enter a junk printer name like xxxxx 11- (since you don't have LPT1 this will go away after next boot) 12- Select "Next" (will install printer driver) 13- Select "Do Not share this Printer" 14- Select "Next" 15- Select Finish Now that the print driver has been installed on your PC, attach the USB cable to your PC (Win 7 will install a the USB cable driver automatically) Then execute similar steps as follows 16- Select "Start" 17- Select "Devices & Printers" 18- Select "Add a printer" (near top of dialog) 19- Select "Add a local Printer" 20- Select "Use an existing port: USB001 *** (NOTE: if you have other USB printers then select the maximum USB port number) 21- Select "Next" 22- Select the manufacturer and printer from the scrollable list 23- Select "Next" 24- Select "use the driver that is currently installed (recommended) 25- Select "Next" 26- Enter an appropriate printer name (e.g. HP Laserjet iip) 27- Select "Next" (will install printer driver) 28- Select "Do Not share this Printer" (unless you want to share the printer) 29- Select "Next" 30- Select Finish Here's hoping this helps anyone!

I have been using this for the last few months with an old HP LaserJet 4 that I refurbished myself. I have to say that it works fantastic as long as you do not have to plug & unplug thing. I use mine on a laptop and every time I plug it back in the first print job screws up 7 out of 10 times by printing up to a hundred pages of one line gibberish. This is NOT the cables fault, it is the stupid windows 8.1 printer que!! So everytime I need to use it on my laptop I have to plug it in, turn the printer on, reboot the laptop, wait for both, then run my print jobs. If the gibberish starts then I just cancel the print job, reboot the computer, print a test page, if it's all fine then I restart my print job. I also store all my print jobs in the que so that if there is an error I can just restart that print job, when I am done and the print job was a success I then go and delete them from the que. Again: The adapter works fine, it's windows 8.1's print queue that screws it up!

I was hesitant to order this as there were several other reviews stating that it didn't work for Windows 7, or 64-bit machines. I am happy to report that in my case it worked perfectly. I am using a brand new 64-bit Dell Latitude laptop and printing to a very old but faithful HP LaserJet 2100 TN. I was able to install the printer through the Windows "Add Printer" process with no special steps, tweaks, or work-arounds. I didn't even have to install the drivers that came on a disk with the cable. That was fortunate because there don't appear to be any 64-bit drivers on the disk, anyway. Computers can be fickle things, so I'm not saying this cable will work for everybody; it obviously hasn't based on other reviews. All I can say is that set up was hassle-free and it is working perfectly for me. If you are having trouble finding a cable that works for you, you should at least consider giving this one a try.

No instructions provided - just the adapter in a plastic bag. HP inkjet printer. I read in the user reviews how some people have gotten it to work and went through the steps. Tried different suggestions for hours. The only way I could get it to print was to let the print job fail and then reboot. Upon startup the printer would then print the job. Obviously of no use. Very disappointed.

First off, this arrived from Amazon very quickly using Free Shipping. My PC recognized this USB device immediately when I plugged it in. I did not connect the Centronics connector to my printer until I was satisfied the PC was happy with just the device. At no point have I had any problems directly related to this device, and once I got over one hump, my printer performs perfectly. The only reason I gave this 4-stars rather than 5 is the absence of any guidance or literature-none! If it was truly just a plug and play operation there would be no problem, but there was a problem. My computer (Win XP) has always printed to port LPT1 by default. When I switched to this cable LPT1 was no longer connected to anything yet my PC kept trying to print to it. It was not intuitive enough to know to print to a different port. It took me a good 30 minutes to an hour to learn how to redirect the printing to this device. I am only very modestly computer-skilled and needed to fumble around a bit before I learned what needed to be done and how to do it. Once I directed printing to this new port the problem was immediately solved. Just a little bit of printed guidance or a web reference would have been really helpful and appreciated. A couple small clues would have helped a lot. I believe anyone who simply uses a computer as a tool with no knowledge of it's operation would have to ask for help to use this device, but there is no telephone number or web reference for any kind of manufacturers or distributors contact or support. I would recommend this to anyone but with the caution that they might have to seek some help getting past the initial print port issue. Also, this is only rated up to Win XP machines according to the card in the blister pack so whether it is further certified for Win 7 is questionable. Perhaps the card is outdated or perhaps it is truly not rated beyond Win XP??

Yea!!! I was really skeptical and worried. A lot of these cable converters have sketchy reviews. But after finding it recommended on an HP site, I bought it. It worked PERFECTLY! I have a 100-year-old HP Laserjet 2100 printer, which is the greatest printer ever built. Maybe I got lucky, but it was just plug-n-play! Amazing! My brand-new HP tower recognized the printer, and we were instantly up and running! Didn't have to install any software. I can't vouch for every combination of printer and PC. Maybe it helped that both my PC and Printer were HP. But this buyer is very happy!!

Bought this cable to connect a 20 year old HP Laser Jet printer to USB on a Windows 10 computer. Windows had no problem finding a driver and installing the printer using the new cable.

Not sure if this product worked because I tried to make an old printer work with a new computer. Had to get a new printer anyway.

Detta är inte en parallelladapter, det är en skrivaradapter. Otydlig beskrivning.

I wanted to connect a very old Epson Stylus Color 400 printer to a fairly old Windows XP computer, and this did the job. XP installed the USB to Parallel adaptor immediately without having to search for drivers. When I went to 'add new printer' it didn't work first time, as it was not clear which of the computer's USB printer ports was the StarTech adaptor. Once I found the right one it worked OK, using the printer driver from XP's list.

Ne fonctionne pas avec une clé HASP ( LPT1 ) pour protection Windev :-(

Muy buena calidad. Cumple con su cometido. No tuve mayor dificultad para utilizarlo.

What an amazing concept and cable. I had a friend that wanted to hook up an old dot matrix printer to uses as a label printer as he had a lot of pin feed label paper. His computer didn't have a parallel port and no slot to ad one in. Also, he was still running Windows XP. It was easy to install and use, and after a bit of configuration, we were able to use his pin feed labels (wow does that bring back memories). Thanks Startech for an innovative product.